Ferris Olin

Ferris Olin
Born (1948-06-27) June 27, 1948
Trenton, New Jersey
Movement Feminist Art, Librarian, Art Historian
Awards Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award 2012

Ferris Olin is a feminist scholar, curator, educator and librarian. Olin was born in Trenton, New Jersey, on June 27, 1948 to Harry William and Naomi (Hanft) Olin. She has been a Professor Art and Library Science in the Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences since 1976.[1] With Judith K. Brodsky, Olin co-founded, and co-directed several initiatives and institutions, including the Institute for Women and Art,[2] the Women Artists Archive National Directory,[3] the Miriam Schapiro Archives on Women Artists, and the Feminist Art Project.[4] She was the founding director of the Margery Somers Foster Center: A Resource Center and Digital Archive on Women, Scholarship and Leadership at Rutgers University.[5][1] In 1975, Olin worked on a design team to found the Training Institute for the Sex Desegregation of the Public Schools in New Jersey, United States, as well as the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.[5]

Education

She studied art history, women’s studies and library science at Douglass College and Rutgers University.[1]

Publications and exhibitions

Olin co-authored, with Judith K. Brodsky, the book The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art, Art and Society (2012).[6] Olin and Brodsky co-curated a parallel exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum, which included the work of Shirin Neshat, Laila Shawa, Mona Hatoum, and Parastou Forouhar.[7]

Awards, honors

Olin was awarded a Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.[8] In 1980, Olin received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to found, at Radcliffe College, the Women in the Community Project.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Ferris Olin Receives Lifetime Achievement Award". Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences. Rutgers University News. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
  2. ↑ "Center for Women in the Arts". Rutgers University. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
  3. ↑ "WAAND". Women Artists Archives National Directory. Rutgers University. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
  4. ↑ "The Feminist Art Project". Rutgers University. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 Wallace, Michelle. "Ferris Olin: A Biographical Sketch" (PDF). Women's Caucus on Art. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
  6. ↑ Friedensohn, Doris. "The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art and Society (Review)". Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County. Ethical Culture Society. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
  7. ↑ "Interview with Fertile Crescent Curators Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin". Art Museum. Princeton University. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
  8. ↑ "2012 Honor Awards" (PDF). Women's Caucus for Art. Retrieved 30 January 2017.


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